Thursday February 22nd, 2018

Florida attacks porn rather than gun violence

Hey, you know what study after study has suggested is correlated with a reduction of sexual
violence? The availability of pornography.

I don't have an answer to the gun violence problem, but it does seem as though we as a
society took the relationship violence of the Parkland shooter seriously, there may have
been legal mechanisms in place to prevent him from having a firearm.

Instead, we have decided to keep perpetuating the social structures that tacitly accept
violence against women and violence in relationships.

Wednesday February 21st, 2018

Amazing how the we need guns to

Amazing how the "we need guns to protect our rights from the government" crowd seems to be lining up behind some pretty authoritarian "arm the teachers" and "metal detectors in the hallways" proposals.

Friend describing how their child is

Mongo vs Postgres

Why We
Moved From NoSQL MongoDB to PostgreSQL. One of their reasons, needing to check for
existence in the record because not all records have a field, is a bad one. And
restructuring a large database can take an unacceptable amount of time (work is currently
dealing with this issue in old MySQL databases and our archive policies around that), but
it's still a good set of things to consider about NoSQL before you hitch a wagon to it.

Differential Punishment

...Half of Black girls’ suspensions are for minor offenses such as violating the dress code, chewing gum, or talking back to a teacher. These behaviors don’t pose threats to classmates or disrupt teaching. But they challenge society’s idea of femininity– white femininity.

Younger men, ages 21 to 30, exhibited a larger decline in work hours over the last fifteen years than older men or women. Since 2004, time-use data show that younger men distinctly shifted their leisure to video gaming and other recreational computer activities. We propose a framework to answer whether improved leisure technology played a role in reducing younger men’s labor supply. The starting point is a leisure demand system that parallels that often estimated for consumption expenditures. We show that total leisure demand is especially sensitive to innovations in leisure luxuries, that is, activities that display a disproportionate response to changes in total leisure time. We estimate that gaming/recreational computer use is distinctly a leisure luxury for younger men. Moreover, we calculate that innovations to gaming/recreational computing since 2004 explain on the order of half the increase in leisure for younger men, and predict a decline in market hours of 1.5 to 3.0 percent, which is 38 and 79 percent of the differential decline relative to older men.

I can't believe it's not Murrican

Florine Gruen Goldfarb runs the Team Trump Broward County Facebook page, which posted numerous times about events that were promoted and encouraged by the Russians. Speaking to CNN on Sunday, she said she didn't believe she was influenced by the Russians and said she thought that Friday's indictment was a ploy to distract from the FBI's mishandling of tip-offs it had received about the Parkland, Florida school shooter.

Octopus Jig

The Octopus Jig (Facebook Video). It
says "Octopus", but there's only six arms... 3 people playing 3 instruments, but each
playing a different part of the instrument (one's strumming, one's fingering).

Tuesday February 20th, 2018

Socially Transitioned Youth

These findings are in striking contrast to previous work with gender-
nonconforming children who had not socially transitioned, which found very high rates of
depression and anxiety. These findings lessen concerns from previous work that parents of
socially transitioned children could be systematically underreporting mental health
problems.

Making pizza tonight

Friday February 16th, 2018

terrorism

*whispers in your ear* white nationalists murdering people will never
be called terrorism in America because terrorism implies its a threat
to the state apparatus but white nationalist violence only reenforces
the state apparatus in America

Shoot the rescuer

"The officers fired shots that struck the man," said [Amarillo Police Sergeant Brent] Barbee. "After some additional investigation, they've learned that the man that the gun may have taken the firearm away from the original suspect in the call. The man who originally had the gun has been taken into custody."

One of the difficulties of having multiple uncoordinated responders in hostage or active shooter situations.

Data doesn't lie Twitter

"Data doesn't lie"? Twitter aggressively pursuing the profoundly ignorant is a useful strategy while they're simultaneously trying to get us to buy advertising and convince us that state sponsored bot accounts aren't influencing US policy.

How bad is the congestion in Marin The

Wrong House, Wrong Person

Officers kill man with no active warrants at wrong house. "No active warrants" is a weird way to say "innocent", but judging from the man's name I guess he wasn't Caucasion, so can be presumed guilty until proven innocent. And there was a firearm in the house, but accounts from witnesses differ from those of police as to whether that the dead man was in possession of that weapon, and whether the police warned him to drop it.

A warrant out of Tate County shows Samuel Pearman was wanted for domestic assault. But, when Southaven officers arrived on Surrey Lane to arrest Pearman, they did not show up to the correct house.

Instead, officers missed their target by 36 feet. Those 36 feet made all the difference to Ismael Lopez and his wife.

“I have never investigated or assisted in an investigation that involved a vehicle and a pedestrian or a vehicle and a bicycle that resulted in a fatality where speed was the primary collision factor,” Maguire said. “Never.”

“I have never investigated or assisted in an investigation that involved a vehicle and a pedestrian or a vehicle and a bicycle that resulted in a fatality where speed was the primary collision factor,” Maguire said. “Never.”

Juana Maria Quiroz says she's had her own close calls with speeding cars in this neighborhood. Some neighbors have been pushing for speed bumps to slow down traffic but were previously overruled by other neighbors who didn't want them. But police on Wednesday said it didn't appear as though the driver was speeding, and that the family was inside the crosswalk when they were struck.

"I look for the most controversial thing I can," he added. "If it's out there and it's controversial, that means people are talking about it. There's no better place to talk about something than at a place where you can actually find out the facts from the original person."

The vitamin salesguy and his wife were convicted in 2016 of "...failing to provide the necessaries of life to their son Ezekiel, who died in 2012."

Monday February 12th, 2018

Cycling in SLO

Tonight, you (San Luis Obispo City Council) have before you a request for
permission to assault that tranquility in order to create a gigantic urban rape. Yes, rape!
No other word would be proper. The rape will not be performed by a male penis, but by
thousands of inanimate bicycles guided by individuals who will have absolutely no
understanding of that precious tranquility they will be destroying in their mindless focus
of getting from point “A” to point “B” with the least possible inconvenience to themselves.